Discusses the idea of womanist theology as it originated in the literature of Alice Walker. Also presents the thinking of several key womanist theologians--Jacqueline Grant, Delores S. Williams, Kelley Delaine Brown-Douglass, Cheryl Townsend Gilkes and Renita J. Weems. Includes an essay offering an alternative hermeneutical approach to that of womanist theology, and further clarifies the author's perspective of racism, sexism and classism in the world and in the Black church.